unscathed
If you walked away from a nasty bike accident without a scratch, you walked away unscathed, meaning you came out unharmed.
You can also come through a scandal unscathed, with your reputation untarnished, or your dog-walking business may emerge from the financial crisis unscathed and more profitable than ever. With the word unscathed, there's always a sense of something bad that might have happened but didn't.
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Vocabulary lists containing unscathed
When a plague ravages the city of Thebes, Oedipus hears a prophecy that begins to unravel everything he thought was true.
In this epic poem, clever Odysseus attempts to find his way home after the end of the Trojan War. Learn these words from the translation by Robert Fagles.
Laura Hillenbrand recounts the tumultuous and amazingly true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who, after surviving 40 days adrift at sea, became a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II.